I’m not a legal expert, but I’ll wager that Ken Cuckoo-cinelli is overstating his case when he says that the only way to prosecute a 47 year-old man for soliciting oral sex from a 17 year-old girl in a state where the age of consent is 18 is by using the anti-sodomy laws. The Supreme Court invalidated anti-sodomy laws in the Lawrence v Texas decision in 2003. Ken’s been Attorney General since 2010, and he was in the Virginia Senate since 2002, so he’s had plenty of time to try to change the Virginia law to remove any loophole created by Lawrence. Instead, he’s mounting his campaign for governor on the back of a 17 year-old girl just to cement a new wingnut talking point about how gays having rights means dirty old men can rob the childhoods of innocent young girls.
Dan Savage is always making the point that the American Taliban came for the gays first, but they’re really gunning for anyone, gay or straight, who doesn’t practice sex the way that Baby Jesus likes it: penis in the vagina, bareback. Here’s another example of why he’s right, because anti-sodomy laws aren’t just for homosexuals.